answer that question.

 

I shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me,

I have seen them; they will remain in my mind forever--and this is almost the

twentieth century. Christ died nineteen hundred years ago, and Spain is a

Christian nation. She has set up more crosses in more lands, beneath more skies,

and under them has butchered more people than all the other nations of the earth

combined. Europe may tolerate her existence as long as the people of the Old

World wish. God grant that before another Christmas morning the last vestige of

Spanish tyranny and oppression will have vanished from the Western

Hemisphere!...

 

The time for action has come. No greater reason for it can exist to-morrow than

exists to-day. Every hour's delay only adds another chapter to the awful story

of misery and death. Only one power can intervene--the United States of America.

Ours is the one great nation in the world, the mother of American republics. She

holds a position of trust and responsibility toward the peoples and affairs of

the whole Western Hemisphere. It was her glorious example which inspired the

patriots of Cuba to raise the flag of liberty in her eternal hills. We cannot

refuse to accept this responsibility which the God of the universe has placed

upon us as the one great power in the New World. We must act! What shall our

action be?

 

Against the intervention of the United States in this holy cause there is but

one voice of dissent; that voice is the voice of the money-changers. They fear